Research students & postdocs

• Dr Jonathan Leach, now a research associate in Bob Boyd's group in Ottawa, Canada
• Dr Aline Vernier, started a postdoc at the Institut d' Optique, Palaiseau, France
• Chris Wilson, MSc
• Alasdair Hamilton, PhD
• Daryl Preece, PhD, after completion started a postdoc at Queensland University
• John Nelson, PhD jointly with the Institute for Gravitational Research (IGR), continued working with the IGR
• Dr Alison Yao, RA July 2008-August 2009, joined the Computational Nonlinear and Quantum Optics (CNQO) group at Strathclyde University
• Dr Stephen Keen, PhD 2005-09, after completion went to work for the Biomaterials Group, Institute of Fundamental Scienes, Massey University, New Zealand
• Dr Kevin O'Holleran, PhD 2005-08, after completion went to work for ThinkTank Maths
• Dr Lesley McMillan, RA until July 2008
• Dr Ken Skeldon, RA until July 2008, now works for Aberdeen University
• Dr Martin O'Dwyer, RA until July 2008, will either work for the civil service or for Network Rail
• Dr Hasan M. Mushfique, PhD until 2008 (jointly with Jon Cooper's group)
• Dr Claire Patterson, PhD 2004-2008, after completion of research went to Kishan's group at the University of St Andrews
• Dr Laura Thomson, PhD 2004-08, after completion of research went to Thales
• Dr Joerg Goette, RA January-September 2007, left to work with Prof. Han Woerdman's group at Leiden University (Netherlands)
• Dr Eric Yao, RA 2003-07, became a University Teacher in the department
• Dr Graeme Whyte, PhD 2003-06, after PhD went to the University of Cambridge
• Dr Gavin Sinclair, PhD 2003-06, after PhD worked as oil prospection specialist
• Dr Ben van Well, PhD 2002-05, after PhD worked for Spiral Scratch Ltd
• Dr Pamela Jordan, PhD 2002-05, after PhD went to the University of Oxford
• Dr Stephen Monk, PhD 1999-2003, after PhD had a gap year in Australia
• Dr Valerie Nadeau, PhD 1999-2003, after PhD went to the University of Manchester
• Dr Jacqueline Hewett, PhD 1998-2001, after PhD went to IOP publishing (more specifically to write for optics.org)
• Dr Anna O'Neil, PhD 1998-2001, after PhD went to Caswell
• Dr Mark Begbie, RA 1998-2000, after PhD worked for Kymata Limited
• Dr Jochen Arlt, PhD 1996-99, after PhD did postdoc at the University of St Andrews
• Dr Richard Conroy, RA 1998-99, currently at Harvard University (2002)
• Prof. Kishan Dholakia, RA 1996-99, now heading his own research group at the University of St Andrews (home page of Kishan's group)
• Dr Paul Lesso, PhD 1995-98, left to work for Tality
• Dr Tracy McKechnie, PhD 1995-98, after PhD worked for Quintiles
• Dr Brett Patterson, RA 1995-98, on completion went to the University of Western Australia (Perth)
• Dr Darren Steers, PhD 1995-98, Royal Society of Edinburgh Entrepreneurial Fellow 1997-98, on completion went to Shell Global Solutions
• Dr Neil Simpson, PhD 1994-97, after PhD worked with BAE systems

Recent visitors and summer students

• Jessica Bell, summer student, July-August 2011
• Sean Leavey, summer student, July-August 2011
• Radhika Chaudhuri, work-experience student, July 2011
• Glen Kirkham, visiting scientist from the University of Nottingham, April, July, September 2011
• Mehul Malik, visiting PhD student from the University of Rochester, September-October 2010
• Prof. Grover Swartzlander, visitor from Rochester Institute of Technology, USA, September 2010
• Angela Dudley, visiting PhD student from CSIR National Laser Centre, South Africa, September 2010
• Blair Kirkpatrick, summer student, June - August 2010
• Dr Alexander Jesacher, visitor from Innsbruck Medical University, Austria, June 2010
• Christina Alpmann, visiting student (and unicycling blackbelt) from Münster University, Germany, April/May 2010
• Joris Berkhout, visiting PhD student from Marco Beijersbergen's group, Leiden University, November 2009 - May 2010
• Lixiang Chen, visiting PhD student from State Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Materials and Technologies, Sun Yat-sen University, China, September 2009 - January 2010
• Martin Sarbort, visiting PhD student from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, December 2009
• Ebrahim Karimi, visiting PhD student from the University of Naples "Federico II", Italy, October 2009
• Dr Jiao Lin, Visiting scientist from Photonics Research Centre, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, August/September 2009
• Prof. Shengmei ZHAO, Visiting scientist from Nanjing University of Posts & Telecommunications, September 2008 - August 2009
• Reuben Aspden, Summer student, June - August 2009
• Colin Greenshields, Summer student, June - August 2009
• Callum MacDonald, Summer student, June - August 2009
• Dean Lambert, Summer student, June - July 2009
• Harsh Snehanshu, Visiting summer student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, May - July 2009
• Sharvil Talati, Visiting summer student from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, May - July 2009
• Anand Jha, visiting PhD student from the University of Rochester, December 2008
• Cécile Pacoret, visiting PhD student from Intelligent Systems and Robotics Institute, Paris 6 University and French Atomic Energy Comission, France, November 2008
• Donald Evans, visiting summer student from Cambridge University, July - August 2008
• Martin Lavery, summer student, July - August 2008
• Gary Ruben, visiting postgraduate student from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), June-August 2008
• Graeme Walker, summer student, July-August 2008
• Prof. Monika Ritsch-Marte, SUPA Distinguished Visitor from Medizinische Universität Innsbruck, Austria, July 2008
• Bhuvanesh Sundar, visiting summer student from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, June-July 2008
• Anand Jha, visiting PhD student from the University of Rochester, March-April 2008
• Dr Florian Flossmann, DFG Research Fellow (Einzelförderung Forschungsstipendiat), January-December 2007
• Chris Wilson, summer student, July-September 2007
• Richard Bowman, summer student from Cambridge University, July-August 2007
• Dr Kotaro Obata, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Germany, July 2007
• Emma Eriksson, Göteborg University, Sweden, May-July 2007
• Sven Passinger, Laserzentrum Hannover, Germany, November 2005
• Dr Roberto Di Leonardo, Universita' di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy, June-November 2005
• Kurt Wulff, Duke University, USA, January-May 2005
• Dr Bruno Piccirillo, University of Naples, Italy, March-April 2005
• Mikhail Vasnetsov, Institute of Physics, Kiev, Ukraine, EPSRC Visiting Fellow May-July 2004
• Kayode Karunwi, Illinois Wesleyan University, USA, June-July 2004
• Johannes de Boor, April-May 2004

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